Court sanctions oligarch Dyminskyi’s detention, - PGO

The court issued the arrest warrant to apprehend businessman Petro Dyminskyi suspected of involvement in a deadly traffic accident in the Lviv region last August.

Spokeswoman for Ukraine’s prosecutor general Larysa Sarhan wrote on Facebook, Censor.NET reports.

"The court granted the petition of the Prosecutor General's Office by authorizing detention of Petro Dyminskyi in order to bring him to court to place him in pre-trial custody," Sarhan said late Tuesday.

On Aug. 18, a Mercedes-Benz S65 collided with an Opel Astra on the Lviv-Krakovets highway near the village of Yamelnia in the Yavoriv district of the Lviv region. Natalia Tril, the 31-year-old driver of the Opel and a resident of one of the villages of the Yavoriv district, died on spot. The police initially said the Mercedes was driven by a 43-year-old Lviv resident.

Stepan Matsevko, a relative of the deceased who reported the tragedy, claims that Dyminskyi himself was behind the wheel of the Mercedes that was accompanied by a Lexus SUV. After the crash, Dyminskyi got into the Lexus and disappeared from the scene, his bodyguard claiming he was driving the car at the moment of the accident.

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